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Design factors

Workers tend to live within 20 minutes travel time from where they work. Obviously, the faster you can travel the further you can live from work. In addition, if you can substitute communication for travel, there is no limit how far you can live from work. The forecasted freedom of location and the social nervous system will enable households to locate anywhere in 1000 sq miles as opposed to 100 sq miles of today. In a market society which tries to reduce discrimination, the buyer has the right to buy or rent and the seller can not refuse to make the transaction. This choice mechanism will make competition between local governments to attract residents and businesses much more intense than currently.


norman@eco.utexas.edu
Thu Jun 8 16:37:44 CDT 1995